Rewarding Music

Handel's 'Silla' -
enjoyed byGERALD FENECH

'Fabio Biondi keeps things moving briskly, and his team responds with committed enthusiasm and minute precision to the demands of the score.'

From Handel's forty or so operas, none is more enigmatic than Silla. Composed to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi, this work was the composer's fourth for London. Incredibly, that is the extent to what we know for certain about this opera...